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Does this make sense? No, it doesn’t! It defies all logic. Yet, this was the nonsense going through my head, the predicament I faced. I actually thought it would be better for my training if I stopped, recharged my GPS and went out in the evening for the remaining 6km. GPS works by connecting your device to a number of overhead satellites and very precisely measuring the amount of time it takes for a signal to travel between your device and the satellites. Because the speed at which the signal travels is known, the amount of time the signal is in transit allows your device to calculate the distance to each satellite. Since the position of each satellite is known, as well as the distance between those satellites and your GPS device, your position can be triangulated. More information can be found here. How is it possible to achieve something, yet not feel a sense of accomplishment until it’s recorded on a remote database or posted to an activity feed for all the world to see? But not everything is hunky dory in the religion of Strava. Too much data can lead to people over exerting themselves as they look for marginal gains at every possible juncture. The community feature can lead to over competitiveness, people desperately trying to get one over on their mates. In fact this user is happy to admit my first foray into Strava left me feeling exposed. I didn't allow a single person to follow me until a few months into my journey.
Look at how routine it’s become for us to document everything. I’ve seen dudes whip out their phones for selfies in the middle of a road race, and even social rides start with a chorus of chirps from Garmins and Wahoos. Every 60 seconds, according to Strava, another six cyclists sign up for the app. Your device may have recorded GPS points that deviate from your true path. See the examples discussed in this article.Here is what GC wanted (shown already with the valid padded zero entries): secs,cad,hr,km,kph,nm,watts,alt,lon,lat,headwind,slope,temp,interval,lrbalance,lte,rte,lps,rps,smo2,thb,o2hb,hhbsecs,cad,hr,km,kph,nm,watts,alt,lon,lat,headwind,slope,temp,interval,lrbalance,lte,rte,lps,rps,smo2,thb,o2hb,hhb recent trip to Europe, Bokanev had a chance to ride the sportive editions of the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. Both rides were extraordinary—among his best cycling experiences ever. But he was on a borrowed bike, without any gadgets. “There was a moment where I really wished I had a power meter so I could know how much power I put out there,” Bokanev told me. “And then it’s like, ‘Oh, screw that.’ ” He laughs. “Thankfully, it was just a fleeting thought.”
Strava will tell me how many kilometres I've covered in a month. It gives me comparative data on two exact runs allowing me to see where I'm progressing or regressing. It records how many miles my shoes have covered, informing me when my shoes need a change. It tells me my fastest times over set distances. If I run a particular stretch of road - a segment - it will tell me how many times I've completed that segment, what each of those times was and how that compares with others who have completed that segment.
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You have the option to crop your activity to simply cut out the most affected parts of your activity if the bad GPS data occurred at the beginning or end of your ride or run. Here is some more information about the crop tool. If a segment didn't match your activity, but you think it should have - you can request that the Strava support team review and attempt to force that segment to match your ride or run. We cannot adjust your time on a segment, however. Here is more information on segment matching issues. unknown_0 and unknown_1 looked like location data (which I censored it from here) but much more interestingly they were not given in floating point layout but rather were integer data points. The one positive I can take from leaving my watch at home was that I didn’t have any stats to distract me from just simply running. What I mean by this is that sometimes I will look at my pace on my watch and I’ll think ‘this is too fast’. I pay too much attention to my watch perhaps, rather than listening to my body. Well on this race I only had my body to listen to and maybe that helped me achieve something incredible that I wouldn’t have done had I been wearing my watch. I have no scientific proof for this of course and I will definitely not be leaving my watch at home again. Truth be told, I felt naked without it. just that we’re addicted to data. Besides being useful for training, digital apps can actually make cycling more satisfying. Anyone who’s ever used a notebook to record how many miles they’ve ridden knows how affirming and motivating it is to keep a ride log. As Eyal points out, “Athletes want to know their effort matters.” These apps, he says, allow us to feel that “all that sweating is not going to waste.”
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about. If you’re a beginner to intermediate runner looking for coaching advice, workouts and a straightforward way to log your runs and exercise sessions, look no further than Runkeeper. If you’re any level of runner and wish to log and analyze your own workouts with no training advice and are motivated by the competitive segments and social side with photos and comments, Strava is the one for you. Why not try both and see which one you get on with best?
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Because we're dealing with extremely fast signals requiring precise detection, any slight inaccuracy in the signal's reception, or disturbance to the signal itself, can translate to a significant dislocation of your reported position. Consequently, environmental factors such as dense trees, steep hillsides, tall buildings, or even heavy cloud cover can impact or even interrupt the travel of the GPS signal between your device and the satellites. Examples of bad GPS data External validation has gained far too much importance in today’s society.It’s a downside to the power of technology. More and more people are feeling a sense of illusion if they don’t document and externally validate something they have done. Yet this defies logic and it’s simply ridiculous. Also very handy was the grouping feature in the regex engine of vscode. ([0-9]*),([0-9.]*),([0-9.]*),([0-9.]*),([0-9.]*) routinely split our cycling into an experiential “during” mode and a data-driven “after” mode. We collect ride data and photos during the ride, and enjoy them afterward. That’s great—except that sometimes, it may feel as if the point of the “during” phase is to create that stuff we can use “after.”
Although primarily used for cycling and running, you can log many many different sports from rollerblading to skiing, and view your training timeline or a feed of workouts from all the athletes you follow. A lot of famous athletes are on Strava so this is a major excitement for fan boys and girls. You can create clubs for your friends to join and log mileage together, and join challenges from Strava and other brands that give you a discount coupon or similar incentive for completing them. You can give other athletes kudos (a thumbs up), comment on their efforts, and compete with them or yourself for the fastest time over various ‘segments’– pre-decided sections of path or road. From a very young age, humans are taught that nonmoral values like money, success, power, and fame are the driving values for societal behavior. I could feel the extrinsic pressures to perform well athletically and earn better grades. My parents never placed pressure on me to perform, but from the messages in the media, athletics, and school, I knew the outcome mattered more than the journey. If I wanted to be successful and contribute to society, then I had to earn a 4.0 GPA (grade point average) and if I wanted to run in college, I needed to run fast.in 39min ? I’m not a good runner but that aint right. And more interestingly: there is more data to the run than is represented in the distance.
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